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Fittingness and Environmental Ethics: Philosophical, Theological and Applied Perspectives

Fittingness and Environmental Ethics: Philosophical, Theological and Applied Perspectives

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Series: Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Bi

Religion General

ISBN10: 1032218533
ISBN13: 9781032218533
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 26 2024
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume focuses on 'fittingness' as an ethical-aesthetical idea, and in particular examines how the concept is beneficial for environmental ethics. It brings together an innovative set of contributions to argue that fittingness is a significant but under-investigated facet of human ethical deliberation with both ethical and aesthetic dimensions. In widely diverse matters - from architecture to table manners - individuals and communities make decisions based on 'fittingness', also expressed in related terms, such as appropriateness, prudence, temperance, and mutuality. In the realm of environmental ethics, fittingness denotes a relation between conscious embodied persons and their habitats and is of relevance to judgements about how humans shape, and take up with, the non-human environment, and hence to ethical decisions about the development and use of the environment and non-human creatures. As such, fittingness can be of great benefit in reframing human relationships to the non-human, stimulating a way of living in the world that is fitting to the preservation of its fruitfulness, goodness, beauty, and truth.

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